Tright here is not any higher, brighter, extra shining instance of humanity’s immeasurable resourcefulness and engineering creativeness than within the myriad methods we’ve give you to get stoned, whether or not we’re smoking it, consuming it, ingesting it, urgent it between two actually sizzling plates after which smoking the gooey runoff or gently heating it in a ceramic crucible to vacuum off the atomized completely happy crystals. But by no means earlier than in human historical past — regardless that you gotta assume these CERN people know how you can celebration — have we smoked weed with lasers. The Hitoki Trident is the desktop flower water pipe that goes pew pew pew to get you excessive excessive excessive, and I’m in love love love.

The Trident oozes futuristic sophistication, like if the Death Star had been a bong. I’m actually impressed with its exact design and high quality machined aluminum building. You can hear it because the water chamber seal securely hisses closed, really feel it within the clunk-click because the higher laser housing seats onto the heating chamber — it’s the identical confident thunk you get within the closing doorways of a Rolls-Royce — even the silicon hose feels of superior-quality materials, not that cheap-as-shit PVC tubing some manufacturers use. Nothing leaks, nothing rattles, nothing sloshes, nothing will get weirdly sizzling for no purpose. I’m genuinely impressed.

I really feel like utilizing the Trident must be extra difficult than it’s given what number of bits and items go into it. The machine consists of three sections: the decrease water chamber, the middle water filter base, and the higher battery/laser meeting. Unscrew the acrylic water cylinder, fill it 1 / 4 full, twist it again onto the water filter base holding the ceramic loading chamber, which you need to have stuffed with shredded plant materials. Insert the draw hose (or optionally available $30 silicone mouthpiece) into its port on the aspect of the unit. Slot and twist the higher stage onto the 2 decrease sections and double-tap the ability button on high to unleash a 9-second blast from its 445nm laser, vaporizing the vegetation. Now, once I say vaporizing on this context, I don’t imply like what a Volcano does, leaving desiccated however still-intact plant matter behind. I imply vaporized, like Terminator 2 vaporized.

The smoke will filter by the decrease water chamber as you draw and an built-in carb on the again of the unit permits for simple chamber clearance. The Trident can deal with each flower and focus, although simply plunking a glob of budder within the heating chamber is a surefire methodology of clogging every little thing up — you’ll have to pad the underside of the bowl with a little bit of flower and high the focus as a substitute.

The unit may even pull double responsibility as an aroma remedy machine however for those who’re paying this a lot simply to incinerate some dried lavender and make the room scent fairly, we’re going to want to speak about your spending priorities. There are candles for that.

You might want to take away the higher part between attracts and poke on the heating chamber to clear the airflow ports, although you’ll solely have to do it as soon as per bowl as a result of there’s typically nothing left however a little bit of carbon ash after two rounds with the laser. Cleaning is easy as properly — give the decrease chamber a wipedown everytime you change the water, sweep out the heating chamber between classes, and infrequently rub the crucible out with a little bit of isopropyl. Just don’t drop the laser meeting, that’s the one piece that the corporate doesn’t sell individual replacements of.

The 1400 mAh capability battery fees through a USB-C port and an included 5A wall plug. It’ll take about 90 minutes after unboxing to completely cost the unit for the primary time however after that, requires solely occasional powerups. The firm claims that every full battery is nice for practically 300 classes and I’ve but to recharge it, 6 grams and a pair dozen bowls into testing.

I recognize the immediateness of the method as properly. You’re not sitting there ready for a bag to fill or a chamber to electronically warmth, and even for leaves to catch fireplace and burn. You activate the laser, and by the point you suppose to start inhaling, there are clouds of dense smoke — cool, filtered and able to say whats up to your alveoli.

My solely two bugaboos are with the size of the hose and its energy button shade scheme. Given the Trident’s tall, slim and customarily top-heavy cylinder form, I do fear about misjudging the size of hose accessible and tipping the unit over to probably disastrous penalties. And if I’m going to make use of the Trident as a conversion piece — a central point of interest for my smoking room — I don’t need one thing that will likely be handed round like a standard gentle bulb. An extended hose might accommodate a extra subtle social smoking expertise — give me one thing gaudy, shiny and metallic, that I can poke visitors with whereas making a degree.

Also, and I do know that is dumb however the truth that the warmth stage indication on the high of the unit begins at pink as the best setting, then inexperienced for medium and blue for the very best warmth drives me nuts. That’s the inverse of what the remainder of the trade makes use of — blue or inexperienced is at all times the best with pink and white on the high. It kinda is smart to have blue be hottest right here for the reason that laser’s wavelength is within the blue a part of the spectrum however it nonetheless throws me. With an MSRP of $500, the Trident is dear — PS5-level expensive. Available in both black or rose gold, it’s $30 greater than a Volcano Classic (although nonetheless $200 lower than the newer Hybrid version) and $100 greater than the Puffco Peak Pro.